Happy Black Country Day! 🏭🥳🍻

Enjoy your day Fanny and all your fellow Blackcountry folk.

Thanks FannyCornforth I learn something new everyday I didn't realise the Black country had it's own day I knew about the flag but not the day. Must say I haven't seen any promotion for it.

Here’s a list of events
I’d love to go to The Black Country Museum, I haven’t been able to you for a few years.
They have just opened a new street too.

www.blackcountryfestival.co.uk/

Happy Black Country Day. We are on the edge of it so shop and eat in the BC regularly.

Oh Kate, I’m sorry that I forgot you!
Oh, you are lucky. I love it so much, I wanted to get married there. I could live there!

Fanny we usually go at least once a year looking forward to see the new street, will probably take the grandsons in the holidays along with their usual Dudley zoo trip.

As a Brummie, I send greetings. Enjoy your day.

Fiorentina Bostin’! Us yam yams appreciate your good wishes!

Monk I’ve got this photo on my fridge.
Three of my favourite things: cats, pubs, and the BCM

Forgot!

Happy Black Country Day from an ex-Wulfrunian!

Fanny that cat is the image of one my parents had he was called soona or as my mother would say sooner he's gone the better she wanted a dog.😀

Thank you eazybee!
I’m actually an ex-pat too (up the road in Derby)
But I’m BC through and through.
I’d love to move back, but moving is such a hassle at the moment, and the healthcare, which my husband is reliant on, is absolutely brilliant here.

Oh monk! Poor cat!
The cat in the picture is rather less unimaginatively called Sylvester

One of my favourite sons in law is a Yammy. He didn't know there was a day.

Enjoy your day, hope it's not raining there

From your neighbour

monk08

Fanny we usually go at least once a year looking forward to see the new street, will probably take the grandsons in the holidays along with their usual Dudley zoo trip.

One of my early memories is of riding on the elephant at Dudley Zoo.

Our tawny owls nearly went to live at Dudley Zoo, but my parents knew that they could look after them just as well, if not better.
So they did 🦉

Thanks Kitty and Calli
Black Country folk do tend to be incredibly friendly.
When I moved here, I was surprised how rude stand offish a lot of people were, especially in pubs.
And I’m not an outgoing sort by any means

I've only been to Derby once, I'm surprised it's unfriendly.

I've posted this on another thread but it's relevant to this one. Last night in a Black Country pub, a young lady almost bumped into me and said 'Sorry babbie' I've been called bab many times, which I love but babbie is a new one on me.

Yes you're right Fanny Black country folk are very friendly much friendlier than were I was originally from Solihull.

I'm taking offence now fanny.

DH went to Birmingham University and, fairly inevitably, came across a fair number of Yammies on his course. We still meet up with one or two of them.

My best friend is a Wolverhampton girl - I've just wished her a Happy Black Country Day. She had no idea about the day, or the flag!

Riverwalk neither did my Aunty Helen, and she’s the most BC person I know!
(She has the flag on her car 🤦‍♀️)

Here is the map of the BC.
Dudley is said to be its ‘capital’, but Tipton is revered as the most ‘quintessentially BC town’.
My dearest Mom taught there for years, and I can vouch for that.

I went to school in Quarry Bonk, Dudley which is also noteworthy for its bonhomie and eccentricity

Re the map

Brown - Dudley
Orange - Sandwell
Peach - Wolverhampton
Yellow - Walsall